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MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF STONE AND TOOLS IS VERY USEFUL.
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JH: Lee, when did you make a commitment to work as a professional sculptor and what actually led you to make that commitment? LG: Well, the story about that unfolded on Galiano Island in 1982, the year of my 40th birthday. I was house-sitting and carving outside every day for about 6 weeks. Half way through that time I got this uncomfortable feeling that although I was having a great time carving, not much sculpting was happening. And it felt like I was burning up the time too fast and it didn’t feel right and I just fretted about that. So one night I stayed up all night fretting and just reflecting on sculpting, reflecting on other kinds of work I had done and was doing, and what made things work for me and what didn’t work, and I realized several things. One of them was that I’ve never been very big on recreation and never understood it.
I always felt like an outsider in games, for example. I played games but I didn’t really understand what was going on, but work is something I’ve understood since I was a little kid. My parents both worked hard. They were very intentional in what they did and I understood that work is about end results. It’s about strong intentions to make things happen. Well, I had my sculpting in the recreation category and once I realized that it was no surprise why it wasn’t working very well. So before it got light that morning I picked my sculpting up and put it over in the work category and made a
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